Arthur Quiller-Couch

a.k.a.Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Q *

Author Code: EAQC

Born: Nov. 21, 1863 - Bodmin, Cornwall, England

Died: May 12, 1944 - Fowey, Cornwall, England

Educated at Newton Abbot College, Clifton College and Trinity College, Oxford, Quiller-Couch began his career as a lecturer in classics at Oxford in 1886. In 1887, he published his first novel, Dead Man's Rock, about his native Cornwall. Between 1887 and 1892 he was in London working for a publishing company and also as an editor for The Speaker. Many of the stories that he contributed to this periodical were collected in book form. Knighted in 1910, he became professor of English literature at Cambridge in 1912. In addition to his novels, poetry and short stories, Quiller-Couch was an anthologist responsible for many important works, including The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (1900) and The Oxford Book of Ballads (1910). His numerous works include The Splendid Spur (1889), Major Vigoureux (1907), On the Art of Writing (1916), ON the Art of Reading (1920), Charles Dickens and Other Victorians (1925), Poems (1930), Green Bays (1930) and The Poet As Citizen and Other Papers (1934).

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EAQC022

Adventures in Criticism

Alexander William Kinglake

The Attitude of the Public Towards Letters

Bjoernsterne Bjoernson

Bow-Wow

C.S.C. and J.K.S.

A Case of Bookstall Censorship

Charles Reade

Chaucer

Club Talk

Excursionists in Poetry

Externals

Henry Kingsley

Ibsen's "Peer Gynt"

Lawrence Sterne

M. Zola

A Morning with a Book

Mr. Anthony Hope

Mr. George Moore

Mr. Hall Caine

Mr. John Davidson

Mr. Stockton

Mr. Swinburne's Later Manner

Mrs. Margaret L. Woods

"The Passionate Pilgrim"

Poets on Their Own Art

The Poor Little Penny Dreadful

The Popular Conception of a Poet

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Robinson Crusoe"

Samuel Daniel

Scott and Burns

Of Seasonable Numbers

Selection

Shakespeare's Lyrics

Thomas Carew

"Trilby"

William Browne

1896

133

629k

EAQC014

The Adventures of Harry Revel

1903

115

524k

EAQC023

The Blue Pavillions

1891

131

507k

EAQC011

Brother Copas

1911

122

552k

EAQC013

Corporal Sam and Other Stories

Colonel Baigent's Christmas

The Copernican Convoy

Corporal Sam

Doctor Unonius

The Jew on the Moor

The Mayor's Dovecot: a Cautionary Tale

Mutual Exchange, Limited

My Christmas Burglary

News from Troy!

Red Velvet

1910

117

551k

EAQC021

Dead Man's Rock

1887

155

616k

EAQC006

The Delectable Duchy

The Conspiracy Aboard the Midas

Cuckoo Valley Railway

Daphnis

The Drawn Blind

Egg-stealing

From A Cottage in Gantick

A Golden Wedding

Legends of St. Piran

Love of Naomi

Parents and Children

The Paupers

The Prince of Abyssinia's Post-bag

The Regent's Wager

School Friends

Seven-an'-Six

The Spinster's Maying

In the Train

Two Monuments

When the Sap Rose

Woon Gate

1906

104

509k

EAQC026

Foe-Farrell

1918

164

681k

EAQC015

Fort Amity

1904

126

580k

EAQC019

Green Bays

Anecdote for Fathers

'Behold! I Am Not One That Goes to Lectures.'

Caliban upon Rudiments

De Tea Fabula

The Doom of the Esquire Bedell

Fire!

In a College Garden

Kenmare River

Lady Jane

L'Envoi - As I Laye A-Dreamynge

A Letter

Measure for Measure

An Oath

Retrospection

The Sair Stroke

Solvitur Acris Hiemps

The Splendid Spur

Tim the Dragoon

Titania

A Triolet

Twilight

Unity Put Quarterly

Upon Graciosa, Walking and Talking

The White Moth

Why this Volume Is So Thin

Willaloo

Written upon Loves Frontier-post

1930

41

187k

EAQC027

Hetty Wesley

1903

153

576k

EAQC004

I Saw Three Ships & Other Winter Tales

A Blue Pantomime

The Disenchantment of 'Lizabeth

The Haunted Dragoon

I Saw Three Ships

The Two Householders

1898

95

457k

EAQC025

Lady Good-For-Nothing

1910

186

709k

EAQC005

The Laird's Luck & Other Fireside Tales

Captain Dick and Captain Jacka

D'Arfet's Vengeance

The Laird's Luck

Margery of Lawhibbet

Midsummer Fires

Phoebus on Halzaphron

The Poisoned Ice

Three Men of Badajos

The Two Scouts

1901

131

659k

EAQC020

Major Vigoureux

1907

160

662k

EAQC024

The Mayor of Troy

1906

132

551k

EAQC029

Merry-Garden and Other Stories

The Bend of the Road

The Black Joke

His Excellency's Prize-fight

Hi-Spy-Hi!

A Jest of Ambialet

Merry Garden

Where the Treasure Is

1907

88

461k

EAQC016

News From the Duchy

The Cask Ashore

Fiat Justitia Ruat Solum

Frenchman's Creek

The Honour of the Ship

Lieutenant Lapenotiere

The Mont-Bazillac

Not Here, O Appollo!

Our Lady of Gwithian

Pilot Matthey's Christmas

Pipes in Arcady

The Three Necklaces

The Wren

Ye Sexes, Give Ear!

1913

105

516k

EAQC008

Noughts and Crosses

The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands

Beside the Bee-hives

The Boy By the Beach

The Carol

The Constant Post-Boy

The Countess of Bellarmine

A Dark Mirror

The Doctor's Foundling

"Doubles" and Quits

Fortunio

The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff

A Happy Voyuage

The Magic Shadow

The Mayor of Gantick

Old Aeson

The Omnibus

The Outlandish Ladies

The Paradise of Choice

Psyche

The Return of Joanna

The Small People

Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman

These-an'-That's Wife

Yorkshire Dick

1891

80

408k

EAQC001

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts

Elisha

Frozen Margit

The Lady of the Red Admirals

The Lady of the Ship

The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem

Oceanus

"Once Aboard the Lugger"

A Pair of Hands

The Penance of John Emmet

Prisoners of War

The Room of Mirrors

The Seventh Man

The Singular Adventure of a Small Free-Trader

A Town's Memory

Which?

1900

133

686k

EAQC007

Poetry

1914

16

184k

EAQC018

Poison Island

1912

146

600k

EAQC017

The Ship of Stars

1899

138

578k

EAQC002

The Splendid Spur

1889

132

585k

EAQC009

Two Sides of the Face

Cleeve Court

The Colaborators

The Horror on the Stair

The Hotwells Duel

The Mazed Election (1768)

My Lady's Coach

The Rider in the Dawn

Stephen of Steens

1903

107

532k

EAQC028

The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems

A. B. D.

Alma Mater

C. W. S.

Chant Royal of High Virtue

Christmas Eve

Coronation Hymn

Dereliction

E. W. B.

To A Friend Who Sent Me A Box of Violets

To A Friend

Hesperus

Jenifer's Love

The Marine

Mary Leslie

To Maurice Hewlett

To A Mother, on Seeing Her Smile Repeated in Her Daughter's Eyes

Nuptial Night

Of Three Children

Pervigilium Veneris

The Regent

The Root

Saturn

The Soldier

The Statues and the Tear

Two Duets

Vashti's Song

The Vigil of Venus

1912

61

251k

EAQC010

Wandering Heath

The Bishop of Eucalyptus

The Captain from Bath

The First Parish Meeting

"Flowing Source."

Jetsom

The Legend of Sir Dinar

The Looe Die-hards

My Grandfather, Hendry Watty

The Roll-Call of the Reef

The Simple Shepherd

Visitors at the Gunnel Rock

Widdershins

Wrestlers

A Young Man's Diary

1895

87

442k

EAQC003

The Westcotes

1901

66

380k

EAQC012

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales

Ballast

The Bridals of Ysselmonde

The Burglary Club

The Capture of the Burgomeister Van Der Werf

The Cellars of Rueda

Concerning St. John of Jerusalem

Cox Versus Pretyman

England!

The Haunted Yacht

John and the Ghosts

The Keepers of the Lamp

King O' Prussia

The Man Who Could Have Told

The Miracle of the White Wolf

Parson Jack's Fortune

The Senior Fellow

Sindbad on Burrator

The Talking Ships

Three Photographs

Two Boys

Victor

1902

151

723k

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